- Jul 1 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
- Jul 1 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
Sports History
Jul 1 Cal Ripken Jr. makes the first of his record 2,216 consecutive MLB starts at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.
- Jul 1 Challenger moves overland to Dryden
- Jul 1 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as President of Argentina
- Jul 1 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
- Jul 1 PEC Zwolle '82 soccer club renamed when purchased by Dutch businessman Marten Eibrink
- Jul 2 In South Africa, the Internal Security Act is passed, giving massive powers to the authorities to investigate any organization or publication
- Jul 2 Larry Walters rises to 16,000 feet over Los Angeles using a lawn chair and 42 helium balloons, [1]
- Jul 2 Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
- Jul 3 Riot at building site of Stopera concert hall in Amsterdam causes Ÿ1 million in damages
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 for the first of 6-straight Wimbledon singles titles
- Jul 4 4th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 4 (STS-4) lands at Edwards AFB
Canadian Women's Open
Jul 4 Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), St George's CC: Sandra Haynie wins by 1 shot from Beth Daniel
- Jul 4 Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado elected president of Mexico
- Jul 4 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-American classic final, Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 for his second and final Wimbledon title
- Jul 5 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
- Jul 7 English athlete David Moorcroft beats Kenyan Henry Rono's 5000m world record by nearly 5 seconds, 13:00.41 in Oslo, Norway
- Jul 8 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 5 performances
- Jul 8 15th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego
Sports History
Jul 8 Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager
- Jul 8 Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property
- Jul 8 Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized
- Jul 9 Botham scores 208 in 225 balls, England v India at The Oval
- Jul 9 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London
- Jul 9 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in a storm in Kenner, Louisiana, shortly after take-off, killing 153
- Jul 10 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
- Jul 10 Rangers Larry Parrish hits his 3rd grand slam of the week
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Samuel Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" sells for $3,250,000
- Jul 11 "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 5 performances
- Jul 11 FIFA World Cup Final, Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain: Italy beats West Germany, 3-1 in front of 90,000
US Senior Golf Open
Jul 11 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Portland GC: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Dan Sykes & Gene Littler; his first of 3 Senior Open titles
- Jul 12 Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs
- Jul 12 FEMA promises survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
- Jul 13 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
- Jul 13 All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cincinnati Reds)
- Jul 13 Iran launches first attack into Iraq
- Jul 13 Train crash at Aalter Belgium, 5 killed
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Jul 14 Musical film adaptation of "Pink Floyd - The Wall", directed by Alan Parker, starring Bob Geldof, and written by Roger Waters, premieres at the Empire, Leicester Square, in London,
- Jul 15 Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
- Jul 15 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
Event of Interest
Jul 15 Senate confirms George P. Shultz as US 60th Secretary of State by vote of 97-0
- Jul 16 CDC report on AIDS symptoms in three hemophiliacs
- Jul 16 George P. Shultz is sworn in as the 60th US Secretary of State
- Jul 16 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
Event of Interest
Jul 16 Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
- Jul 18 "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 performances
British Golf Open
Jul 18 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon: American Tom Watson wins his 4th Open Championship, 1 stroke clear of Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price
Sports History
Jul 19 1st annual Cracker Jack Old-Timers Baseball Classic: 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 275-foot HR off Warren Spahn, as AL beats NL 7-2; participants included Hank Aaron, Lou Brock, Bert Campaneris, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Don Newcombe, and Early Wynn (RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.)
- Jul 19 Bolivian government resigns
- Jul 19 David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
- Jul 20 Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
- Jul 20 T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London
- Jul 21 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 22 Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle
- Jul 23 FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
- Jul 23 International Whaling Commission votes for total ban on commercial whaling (starting 1985)
- Jul 24 "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" closes at E O'Neill NYC after 63 performances
- Jul 24 Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299
- Jul 24 KHJ (LA) & KFRC (San Francisco) become 2nd & 3rd stereo AM stations
- Jul 24 Single "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor from "Rocky III" soundtrack starts 6-week run at #1 on US charts (Grammy for Best Rock Performance)
- Jul 25 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
Tour de France
Jul 25 69th Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France
- Jul 25 France performs nuclear Test
- Jul 25 US Open Women's Golf, Del Paso CC: Janet Anderson shoots final round 68 (−4) to claim her only LPGA Tour win, 6 strokes ahead of Beth Daniel, Donna White, JoAnne Carner and Sandra Haynie
- Jul 25 Zail Singh is sworn in as the seventh President of India
- Jul 26 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
Film & TV History
Jul 26 Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan is seriously injured filming a fight scene for the movie "Coolie"
- Jul 26 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
Little Shop of Horrors
Jul 27 Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors" opens Off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre in NYC
Event of Interest
Jul 27 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's first visit to the US in almost 11 years
- Jul 30 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
- Jul 30 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- Jul 31 46 kids & 7 adults die as 2 buses and several cars collide near Beaune, France
- Jul 31 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
- Jul 31 USSR performs nuclear Test
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